Uniform and scalable sampling of highly configurable systems

R Heradio, D Fernandez-Amoros, JA Galindo… - Empirical Software …, 2022 - Springer
Many analyses on configurable software systems are intractable when confronted with
colossal and highly-constrained configuration spaces. These analyses could instead use …

Uniform and scalable SAT-sampling for configurable systems

R Heradio, D Fernández-Amorós, JA Galindo… - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Several relevant analyses on configurable software systems remain intractable because
they require examining vast and highly-constrained configuration spaces. Those analyses …

Distance-based sampling of software configuration spaces

C Kaltenecker, A Grebhahn… - 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Configurable software systems provide a multitude of configuration options to adjust and
optimize their functional and non-functional properties. For instance, to find the fastest …

A comparison of 10 sampling algorithms for configurable systems

F Medeiros, C Kästner, M Ribeiro, R Gheyi… - Proceedings of the 38th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Almost every software system provides configuration options to tailor the system to the target
platform and application scenario. Often, this configurability renders the analysis of every …

Uniform sampling of sat solutions for configurable systems: Are we there yet?

Q Plazar, M Acher, G Perrouin… - 2019 12th IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Uniform or near-uniform generation of solutions for large satisfiability formulas is a problem
of theoretical and practical interest for the testing community. Recent works proposed two …

Tackling combinatorial explosion: a study of industrial needs and practices for analyzing highly configurable systems

M Mukelabai, D Nešić, S Maro, T Berger… - Proceedings of the 33rd …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Highly configurable systems are complex pieces of software. To tackle this complexity,
hundreds of dedicated analysis techniques have been conceived, many of which able to …

YASA: yet another sampling algorithm

S Krieter, T Thüm, S Schulze, G Saake… - Proceedings of the 14th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Configurable systems allow users to derive customized software variants with behavior and
functionalities tailored to individual needs. Developers of these configurable systems need …

Test them all, is it worth it? Assessing configuration sampling on the JHipster Web development stack

A Halin, A Nuttinck, M Acher, X Devroey… - Empirical Software …, 2019 - Springer
Many approaches for testing configurable software systems start from the same assumption:
it is impossible to test all configurations. This motivated the definition of variability-aware …

Learning software configuration spaces: A systematic literature review

JA Pereira, M Acher, H Martin, JM Jézéquel… - Journal of Systems and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Most modern software systems (operating systems like Linux or Android, Web browsers like
Firefox or Chrome, video encoders like ffmpeg, x264 or VLC, mobile and cloud applications …

BURST: a benchmarking platform for uniform random sampling techniques

M Acher, G Perrouin, M Cordy - … of the 25th ACM International Systems …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We present BURST, a benchmarking platform for uniform random sampling techniques. With
BURST, researchers have a flexible, controlled environment in which they can evaluate the …